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I loved the ending, I just wish a sequel could have been made that took off straight from there. The problem with the end (and otherwise I think the Burton POTA is a fine film) is there is literally no explanation for how time got changed on Earth when they're not on Earth for most of the film. A twist end like that has to have some foundation in the film and as many times as I've watched it, there wasn't one.

What was that one Pompeii guy up to? (Warning, somewhat mature and juvenile content) http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/04/is-this-pompeii-victim-really-having-one-last-bash-scientists-have-their-say-6754791/

More importantly, how much dps do I get for dual wielding monitors? ... I'll get me coat.

Having been around for a couple of big patches, it also seems that major updates occasionally will have some new code that unintentionally nullifies fixes for old bugs. I think more than once I've seen reports of bugs returning that way.

Consider this a gentle reminder - Discuss ideas not people - this includes attempts to applying psychoanalysis to other's posts to try to ascribe motives to them. If you have an issue with someone's post, please report it so that a moderator may address the issue. Do not circumvent the word filter.

I've also found a platter of a variety of cheeses and crackers can also work in a pinch.

Stan's health hasn't been great the past few years, anyhow. So there was already worry.

Actor Skip Homeier passed away June 25th. He was in a number of movies (The Gunfighters with Gregory Peck and the 1954 noir film Cry Vengence, for example) and he was on TV often (he played the Judge in the 1976 TV-Movie adaption of Bugliosi's Helter Skelter, was in Mission: Impossible, Alfred Hitch**** Presents, and a lot of the late 50s westerns like The Rifleman). For sci-fi fans he may be best remembered for two roles on Star Trek, Melakon in "Patterns of Force" and Dr. Severin in "The Way to Eden" http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/skip-homeier-dead-tomorrow-world-star-trek-actor-was-86-1018507 Not quite a celebrity in her own right, but well known none-the-less, Joan Lee, wife of Stan Lee has also passed away. She was also an author of one published book, The Pleasure Palace: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/joan-lee-dead-wife-marvel-comics-legend-stan-lee-was-95-1018951

I understand what you mean, but for me TNG lacked kind of the explorer's adventure element that responded for me watching TOS as a kid. A friend who was also dissatisfied with it at the time described it as "The Enterprise Taxi Cab Service" which might be a tad unfair but I understood what he meant - a lot of episode set ups were "take person A to place B and complications ensue". That doesn't mean it was bad, but after a rough start and a few years of being regular viewing I kind of lost interest so large parts of the later seasons I may have only seen an episode or two.

I'm glad you're getting assistance, Gamerfergy.

This is the last thing I read regarding GOG:

That would be the first Star Trek pilot "The Cage" with Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike (a character who shows up again in TOS) and John Hoyt was Doctor Boyce. Hunter was probably best known for playing Jesus in King of Kings and turns in Westerns like The Searchers and The Great Locomotive Chase. Hoyt was a Television regular from the 1950s to the 1980s. Susan Oliver played Vina, the only survivor of the previous planetary expedition. Oliver was another TV veteran, possibly most identified for her role on the TV adaption of soap opera Peyton Place. Majel Barrett features as the emotionless second in command (only called Number Two). She'd go on to voice the computer on various Star Trek productions and played Nurse Chapel. Nimoy's Spock is full of emotion in this story as well. After the first pilot failed, Roddenberry was given a chance (somewhat unprecedentedly) to do a second pilot. The network wanted Spock out and Number 2 softened; instead Roddenberry fused the two into one character. The second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" has Paul Fix (another veteran TV performer but perhaps most identified as Sheriff Micah Torrance in The Rifleman) as Doctor Piper. Also in it are Gary Lockwood (who was in Roddenberry's earlier series, The Lieutenant), Sally Kellerman (who went on to a big film career in the 1970s) and Paul Carr, another veteran TV player who you'll see all of 50s to 70s US TV. DeForest Kelly's Dr. McCoy shows up for the first filmed episode of the series, "The Corbomite Maneuver". Because of broadcasting though, McCoy was first seen by audiences of the time in the first aired episode, "The Man Trap". Dr. Piper shows up without explanation two episodes later and fans had to wait until the 1980s to see "The Cage" and Dr. Boyce. While I look forward to re-watching TNG, I didn't find it at the time anywhere near as interesting as The Original Series. Be interesting to find how I see it now.

I'm of the opinion that its such a big change to events as we know it that it'd be almost impossible to truly categorize the fallout as it would change so many large and small things as it wouldn't just eliminate events but it'd change the way people thought. That said, I can't resist a couple of "what-ifs": French expansion led to the Natchez War which had left much of Mississippi and Alabama under Choktow and Chickasaw control (and maybe Creek?) The desire of the State of Georgia to shore up its claim to the "Yazoo Lands" (even though the Natchez War had ended with the Yazoo tribe wiped out) was only really possible post-Revolution and possibly one motivation (the return of Florida to Spain post-US Revolution) would be removed. Without the Yazoo Land Scandal, there would have been no call from Washington to control 'Indian affairs" and thus no Treaty of New York; as such there'd have been no need for the British to support William Bowles (a colonial loyalist) to form the 'state' of Muscogee unifying the Cherokee, upper and lower Creek, Chocktow, Chickasaw (covering most of North and Middle Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi) which challenged various land treaties, including those of the Treaty of New York British controlled Florida doesn't go back to Spain; without the US, there is no Creek or Seminole Wars Which leads to the big question, given that the UK backed Muscogee and seemed to somewhat back the Seminoles (they denounced the Seminole Wars, IIRC) would Britain have negotiated (and kept) agreements that gave those two groups their own lands had there been no US Revolutionary War?

Have you emailed obsidian support with it? Or just posted here?

As Hannibal said, MrBishop addressed the issue in this very thread; they are aware of the problem with the game being rendered unplayable for some users; there is a work around that has worked for some people. Unless they have a revised work-around that works better or an incoming patch, what else can they say beyond restating that they're working on the issue? Genuinely curious - would it be helpful for one of the developers to come in and say "we have no update, but we're aware of the problem and are working to fix it" periodically? Or would that just be a further annoyance? I ask because it sounds like the only answer you want to hear is 'it is fixed' and that doesn't appear to be the case yet.

No problem, I've moved the thread to the POE: Character Builds Forum.

In Hot Pursuit (1977 aka Polk County Pot Plane): Low budget regional film about a group of pothead drug smugglers who are chased by police in rural-ish Georgia (USA). There's no real characterization to talk about, and a lot of stiff acting that mostly is an excuse to set up the next chase, but the action sequences are staged pretty well for a movie that proclaims "No stunt-men were used" in the credits. Golden Needles (1974) Joe Don Baker is hired by Elizabeth Ashley who is working for Burgess Meredith to steal a small statue that shows a secret acupuncture technique that can restore vitality from a man who killed to get it. Double crosses abound; Jim Kelly offers some solid support in the LA sequences. From Robert Clouse, director of Enter the Dragon (and Gymkata).

Sorry to hear that. When I broke my ankle the morphine didn't completely kill the pain for me either and it was a very, very sucky first few days.

To be fair, it was - I think the fifth Covenant novel that began to annoy me and the sixth that drove me off. I did like the original trilogy pretty well, but have never went back to reread.

I'm not saying that the Inhumans trailer isn't a disappointment - it is on several levels for me. But it also looks a lot like the last few seasons of Agents of SHIELD, to be honest.

There's also a certain degree of repetition in the Thomas Covenant books. I never completed them because after the umpteenth time Covenant ran the words "Leper! Outcast! Unclean!" through his mind while doubting himself (or similar; I read this years ago) I just couldn't take more of it. Not that it isn't true to life, I guess, but it just grated after awhile. YMMV, of course.

I think you'd be better off comparing Inhumans to Marvel's Agents of SHIELD or, say, Legends of Tomorrow, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Supernatural, Sleepy Hollow, Gotham, etc, than the cable and streaming shows you list.

Eh, its a TV show with a little more money thrown at it to show the first two episodes on IMAX screens; I don't think it was going to ever look like anything other than a TV show. Its still sad to see Medusa's prehensile hair (she's defeated Venom with it!) so reduced. Wonder if they'll explain why she's not using it regularly...

Apparently Cinderella Man made Max Baer into a villain who enjoyed his reputation as a man killer, whereas the real Max Baer was torn-up over Frankie Campbell's death and almost quit boxing over it, so I've heard its historical accuracy challenged a bit.